[ClearCase_guy]

Drat! I thought I could get away with it. I’ll put it back ...

[Izzy Dunne]

That's $2.9 with 11 zeros after it.

OK, folks, lets's try exactly that:

$2.9 followed by 11 zeroes:

$2.900000000000

Hmmm. Looks like a tad short of three bucks to me.

[vetsvette]

If they find the $2.6 trillion they should send it over to me for safe keeping. You can bet that I won’t misplace it.

[BGHater]

Better check out the couch.

[Redleg Duke]

Check in Murtha’s mattress.

[chrisser]

A $trillion here, a $trillion there. Pretty soon it adds up to real money.

[evets]

Nigeria?

[SaxxonWoods]

Gotta be my wife (aka “The War Dept.”). She went through about $6 trillion last year, but I’m only missing $3.1 trillion.

[freekitty]

It’s called graft.

[Teacher317]

Subtracting the value of American international assets from what foreigners own of American assets, they come up with how much Americans are in debt to other nations and their peoples.

I'm sure we'll be forgiven the debt, just as we've forgiven trillions in debts to us from poorer nations.

/s>

[truemiester]

I got my Billion.

No, really it came in the mail. I thought it was just a clerical error in my tax return. I was going to return it (if the government asked). Or it could have been a government program to help the handicap (I’m bald. A true victim)

Or as they say in Washington “ a billion here, a billion there, pretty soon it adds up!”

[in hoc signo vinces]

Somebody post the U.S.S Odessy from Stargate...that’s where the cash went...

As Yoda would say.

“To build those space battle cruisers, expensive it is...hmmmm”

[dragnet2]

A quarter century ago, the US was the world's largest creditor nation.

That went over the cliff, same as American leadership in the past 25 years.

More evidence the U.S. government should be dramatically slashed and reduced in size before they're policies and incompetence completely bankrupt the country.

[Condor51]

The $2.9 trillion is not missing, it’s in my mattress.

Come and get me Copper!

[moonman]

"Some words of explanation: Every quarter the Department of Commerce comes up with the US "International Investment Position." At the end of 2006, for instance, the US had a net negative position – by this measurement of international assets and liabilities – of $2.6 trillion. In other words, the country is by far the world's biggest debtor nation."

This is bogus chit. In fact, what it is truely saying is, "People from all over the world believe in America and they invest here. America, on the other hand, thinks the rest of the world is a poor investment and have decided to keep their money here!"

What New Jersey town does the rest of the world want us to sell to make up the difference? Camden or Newark?

[zek157]

Isn’t this the result of running a trade deficit and foreign investment supporting the imbalance by buying our treasuries?

This never ends ok.

[E. Pluribus Unum]

That's $2.9 with 11 zeros after it.

A few more zeroes and we'd be talking about some real money.

[RusIvan]

There, it pays only a 10 percent tax on its corporate profits, rather than the 38 percent corporate rate in the US. Other US firms set up affiliates in such tax havens as Barbados, the Bahamas, and Bermuda. ==

Funny:) They forget that working from Irland Microsoft pays the Irish profit tax. I do not think that its lesser the 38%.
If you work form Bermuda then you get under whole bunch of the importation quotas and dues when you import your good into country. That is why many corporations establish the affiliations in the EU or Russia for example. If you import good into russia they they tax you with the importation tax which do not exist if you produced good inside the country.

So Microsfot and others just expand thier markets going to EU or China or else. They do not have no tax profits there.

[MinuteGal]

The gubmint should hire Calypso "Million Man March" Louie Farrakhan to do an audit. He'll figure where the long green went in no time at all.

Leni